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Which lines from “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe contain onomatopoeia? Check all that apply.

#1:What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
#2:How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
#3:Keeping time, time, time,
#4:From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
#5:To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

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i'm pretty sure it's #2 , #4 and #5
User Nasser AlNasser
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First of all, you need to know what onomatopoeia is. It is a rhetorical figure of speech in which sounds from nature are included - sounds such as meow, growl, squeal, etc. Having that in mind, the correct answers are:
#2:How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
#4:From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
#5:To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
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